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Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
- pixelmonkey 8y agoSort of self-hosted version of what https://rabb.it https://rabb.it does. I have used Rabbit a couple times successfully for watching movies with Internet friends.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoRabbit allows VNC-ing into a VM instead of just synchronizing the events though - I'd be interested to see a good platform for multi-user VNC though!
- AuzzieStig 8y agoAlways used Garys Mod Cinema servers for this
- Asooka 8y agoIf anyone is looking for this, but for offline videos (where every person has a local copy of the video), that exists and is called "syncplay". Very convenient when you want to watch and comment on movies with distant friends in real time.
- Cyphase 8y agoMy cousin and I used to do this manually all the time via IM when we were younger. We watched whole shows together that way. Also we used the IM for live commentary. 3 2 1 play! ... omg, he did not just do that! ... whaaaaat?! ... pause, brb back, where are you? 23:51 okay, ready. 3 2 1 play! ... omg, i can't believe that just happened. next ep? yea. hold on.. ready 3 2 1 play! Good times.
- ggg9990 8y agoI’ve always wished Netflix had this built in. If it didn’t support syncing between the same account it would even voluntarily cut down on account sharing.
- TheWiseOne 8y agoNetflix actually had a feature on the original Xbox that allowed you to create a group with your friends and watch videos together. Unfortunately, they removed this feature a while ago.
- sgtmas2006 8y agoOn the Xbox 360 you mean? I recall it there, not on the original Xbox.
- city41 8y agoYes it was on the 360. The original Xbox never got Netflix.
- michaeljbishop 8y agoI set this up in the most hacky way 10 years ago with my girlfriend. We would watch dvds together and I wanted to synchronize them (especially important for comedies) My setup? An app that would monitor DVD Player for events while listening to events over iChat using AppleScript. If someone paused or played the DVD, the moitoring process would notice the event, make a JSON payload representing the action including the local timestamp, and use AppleScript to post an iChat message. Then, the process on the other side, would see the special iChat message (forwarded via AppleScript), and apply the action to the local DVD player process, taking into account the difference between the sent timestamp and the local timestamp. It worked like a charm and made watching movies so much more fun. We always had iChat open anyway so it seemed like an easy win to piggy back on that, no server needed. An inelegant hack, but it worked.
- Feuilles_Mortes 8y agoThis is pretty clever, I like it!
- hammadfauz 8y agohttps://github.com/hammadfauz/syncPlay https://github.com/hammadfauz/syncPlay
- mosselman 8y agoDoes this work with netflix, for example?
- sakarisson 8y agoSeems like this is for playing local files only. From what I can tell, both parties need the same file on their computer to play.
- mosselman 8y agoAh, because it talks about HTML5 I figured it was used on different online sources through a browsers.
- geekuillaume 8y agoI've worked on this for a personal project (that never shipped), specially for music videos so the synchronization needed to be very precise. In the end, I implemented a basic NTP server via websockets to synchronize all clients on the same clock and then just send them the start timestamp of the YouTube video. I achieved sub 50ms sync 75% of the time, making it work for the last 25% was much harder than I expected.
- a_t48 8y agocytube (https://github.com/calzoneman/sync https://github.com/calzoneman/sync) is pretty close to this.
- shankspeaks 8y agoYeah, same here built a tool for Youtube about 12 years back as an experiment using XMPP as the messaging layer for syncing and group chat. We would buffer/pause video based on the video player state of the slowest connection, and still allow users to manually control playback. Fun app, and a great example of the versatility of XMPP.